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The Space Born: Illustrated Edition
Paperback
Metaphysical GeneralReligion General General Poetry
Publisher: Penemue Media
Published: Mar 20 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
First published in 1930, The Space-Born occupies a distinctive place within the early corpus of Manly P. Hall. Composed during a formative period of his intellectual development, this cycle of twenty-nine poems reveals Hall in a mode different from his later philosophical expositions: compressed, symbolic, and architecturally poetic.
Here consciousness is not argued. It is intoned.
Metaphysics does not unfold discursively. It reverberates.
Themes that would later define Hall's mature lectures-spirit embodied within matter, the cosmos as interior reality, the pilgrimage of awareness-appear here in concentrated form. Each poem stands independently, yet the cycle unfolds cumulatively, through recurrence, tonal progression, and symbolic echo.
This edition restores the work with deliberate care.
The text has been re-typeset word for word, line for line, from the 1930 first edition to preserve Hall's original cadence, spacing, and visual rhythm. The architecture of the page has been treated as integral to meaning.
In dialogue with the text, artist Charles E. Barbour contributes twenty-nine original works of symbolic art. These illustrations function not as embellishments, but as interpretive counterparts. Drawing upon archetypal form and contemporary esoteric visual language, the images extend Hall's metaphysical vocabulary into the visual register. Word and image operate as parallel modes of contemplation.
Published as part of the Living Apocrypha series-texts that stand beside canon rather than beneath it-this volume presents The Space-Born as a living interior document. Its movement is measured and cumulative. It rewards attention rather than speed.
For readers of esoteric philosophy, symbolic poetry, perennial thought, and early twentieth-century metaphysical literature, this illustrated edition restores one of Hall's most contemplative works in a form that honors both its origin and its continuing vitality.
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